Eastnor Castle, in Herefordshire, was built in 1812 and designed by Robert Smirke, the architect of the British Museum.

Weekend at Leisure

The Herefordshire castle where Succession’s Shiv and Tom were married is now welcoming mere mortals—for a fee

By Rachel Johnson

Brideshead Revisited, Bridgerton, Gosford Park, Saltburn: the combination of toffs behaving badly on rolling estates has long been catnip for filmmakers.

Votaries of the cult of the outrageous aristocrat can visit Castle Howard, the North Yorkshire pile portrayed in Brideshead Revisited and Bridgerton. Drayton, the 127-room jewel in Northamptonshire seen in Saltburn—which for many was the real star of Emerald Fennell’s fever dream, not Barry Keoghan’s penis—remains a private residence. Film fanatics who want to re-create “that scene” (maybe don’t google it) will have to content themselves with those Saltburn bathtub cocktails that are all over TikTok.